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Quote of the moment Vol.2

“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” – Illustrated London News, Jan. 17, 1931 G. K. Chesterton

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"I am the last monarch of the old world. As Emperor, it is my duty to protect my peoples from their politicians" -Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary

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In Which November 2026 is welcomed with Christmas and more Artificial Intelligence Thoughts!

Good morning, my friend, cordial reader of this present post! Happy Sunday, and happy November!! The month building up to the best of the year! We are closer to the end of a deeply chaotic one, speaking of which, closer than not. 2025 was quite eventful, but 2026 makes 2025 looks as tepid as 2015 in comparison. As the Christmas part of the year unfolds, more and more breathe relieved, though the perspectives for 2027 are nebulous at best. October was a huge pile of anxiety. The glee of the first half of the month, where I live, turned to immense dread and resentment after the election results in Brazil. The events of such horrendous circumstance are still unfolding. I wrote it was as if the end of the Soviet Union... my more pessimistic side thinks it is more akeen to the Hungarian Spring, though. Perhaps, as Poland, we will have a anticommunist upheaval now, and reap the good rewards later. Perhaps we will have a moment of chaos before it implodes, like with the Soviet Union... the ca...

In Which Gardening Will Not Redeem Diocletian

In Which I wonder: Are we on a Permian Moment, or are we on the Triassic?

In Which Balance on French History is Hard to Get Correctly

In Which We talk of Books and the rush to the grocery market

In Which I am in a journey back home

In Which a delayed book Arrive, and more Anecdotes of December 2024

In Which we Welcome December with some Christmas Portraits!

In Which we have Mods for Civ 5 and the Age of Giants

In Which we have Games and Joseph II

In Which History Progression games are quite entertaining

In Which I am in a Habsburg Season

In Which I wait for my Birthday and the Habsburg Season

In Which we Wrap up February, the longest short month

In Which I talk about routine and friendships...

In Which I have the delicate balance between Forcing writing and Not Writing at all...

In Which I avoid EU4 and other stories

In Which Human Action Cannot be Predicted a priori

In Which Anno Domini 2024 begins... History and One Step At a Time

In Which We Wrap Up 2023, and glimpse at 2024